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Bobbi ManiaciB.Arch

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Portfolio Selected Works - 2014 | 2015

Color Study of Benoit Paillé's "Cheap Motel" Series

Contact Information: Email: bobbimaniaci@gmail.com

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Table of Contents

Agricultural Disc

Triptych Series

Invisible Cities

Car Go, Van Go

Household Rituals

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Page 6-7

Page 8-9

Page 12-13

Page 10-11

Agricultural DiscThe motivation for this house is to incorporate communi-ty living with self-sufficiency and agricultural growth. the green roof provides an opportunity to cultivate a variety of crops, the transitions between public and private space.

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LIVING LEVELSCALE: 1/16” = 1’-0”

AGRICULTURAL LEVELSCALE: 1/16” = 1’-0”

ROOF LEVELSCALE: 1/16” = 1’-0”

TOMATOES

CORN

EGGPLANT

LETTUCE

WINDOWS

STUDY

INTERNET LOUNGE

LOUNGE

ENTERTAINMENT

LOUNGE

LOCKERS

KITCHEN/DINING ROOM

BEDROOM

BATHROOM

SECTION A-ASCALE: 1/16” = 1’-0”

KITCHEN/DINING

COMMUNAL SPACE

BED

ROO

MCOMMUNAL SPACE

BED

ROO

M

BRIDGE

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Floor Plans

Model on Site

Final Model

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Triptych SeriesThis series shows the evolution of a design throughout an array of guidelines. Initially creating a 2D design to be transformed volumetrically and then into programmatic renderings.

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2D Planar/Volumetric Programmatic

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Invisible CitiesThis set is an interpretation of Italo Calvino’s city of Ersilia, found in “Invisible Cities.”

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“In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city’s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white accord-ing to whether they mark a relationdhip of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain. From a mountainside, camping with their household goods, Ersilia’s refugees look at the labyrinth of taut strings and poles that rise in the plain. That is the city of Ersilia still, and they are nothing. They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away. Thus, when traveling in the ter-ritory of Ersilia, you come upon the ruins of abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form.”

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Car Go, Van Go

In response to the increase of population and development of secaucus in 2030, due to its proximity to new york city, Car Go, Van Go, proposes the concept of a fast lane that runs along existing local transit, including the most recent 7 train extension. This will provide not only an opportunity for more efficient travel throughout this blossoming city, but allow for art to be experienced in a casual, yet unique way. This fast lane will exhibit a variety of styles that depend purely on movement and speed, such as flip book/stop mo-tion art and the simplistic advertising techniques of burma shave. This addition also provides space for cultural hubs to form above the upper level, both accessible from the fast lane, and the sidewalk. Throughout the use of ramps from each individual level, there is virtually no conflict between the vehicles and pedestrians. these hubs contain a series of programs that reflect the culture, interests, and art of a particular area of secaucus, therefore establishing a compi-lation of varied experience and self expression.

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Floor Plans Sections Axonometric

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Household RitualsThis series diagrams the use of a perfume bottle throughout daily life. It also features a collaboration piece combining the perfume bottle’s program with one of ateapot.

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Combined Program Diagram